"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
—Mortimer Adler (b. 1902) American philosopher, educator, How to Read a Book
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Freedom Trains
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:52:05 GMT
Isabel Wilkerson’s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.
 
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Simian Says
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:10 GMT
Sara Gruen’s busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.
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Bringing It All Back Home
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:17 GMT
The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.
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Stormy Weather
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:31 GMT
This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.
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Worlds in Collision
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph’s novel.
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No. 1 Sleuth
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.
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Hannibal Rising
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:28 GMT
A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.
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Lost Tribe
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:30 GMT
A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.
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Living in Your Head
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:39 GMT
Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.
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Science Fiction Chronicle
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Science fiction by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.
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Words Cannot Express
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Guy Deutscher’s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.
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Ghost, Come Back Again
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Paul Murray’s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys’ school, is an elegy to lost youth.
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Endless War
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:00:54 GMT
Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.
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Unhappy Days
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
The historian Laura Kalman looks at the Ford and Carter years.
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Immortal Beloved
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.
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